This is another deceptively hard record. After spending so much time and wrapping paper wrapping Joey up in wrapping paper at the end of last year, I thought wrapping him up in newspaper would be a piece of cake. It wasn’t.

In fact, Joey stood through I don’t know how many attempts of wrapping with newspaper and I had to raid my parents’ Idaho Stateman recycling several times over a few month period to keep myself flush with double fold large sized newspaper sheets.

Two of the hardest problems with this record is that newspaper is so easy to rip and it doesn’t like to not rip when being pulled around curved surfaces. Joey is a competitive gymnast and his muscles are just a little too well-defined. I did get to experiment with different types of tape and which sheets to add when and which sheets to tape on the ground vs on the body. I got so close on one attempt but there was just a tiny tip of his shirt showing so it didn’t count.

I then recruited my niece Cypress of a final attempt. She met the 5-foot minimum height requirement and is growing tall fast so I wrapped her up in 2 minutes 53 seconds beating the previous mark of 3 minutes 5 seconds. She was a great sport about it and we had lots of fun. Happy Birthday!